I'm trying to set up the Jooq database mapping library, part of which involves generating Java sources based on a database schema.

I've followed all available instructions on setting this up with Maven, and I now have it to the point that I can run this at the command line:

mvn generate-sources

And it will do what it's supposed to do. I'm also using the build-helper-maven-plugin to add the generated sources to the build path, and this now works with M2E.

The problem is that I can't seem to persuade M2E to generate these sources as part of the normal build process within Eclipse. When I delete target/ at the command line it fails to regenerate the source, and then complains about not being able to find those generated files.

I've added a pluginExecutionFilter and set <action> to <execute> with <runOnIncremental>true</runOnIncremental>.